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From: davidbu@tekigm2.men.tek.com (David Buxton)
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Subject: Re: comments on contradictory accounts
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Date: 17 Dec 89 07:13:36 GMT
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A few years ago I read a book by a former Agnostic, or was he an
Atheist.  He was from a German school famous for the skeptics it
turned out.  He set out to prove the story of Jesus was a fraud
and ended up a Christian.  One reason - he said that if all the
accounts were consistent then that would prove a conspiracy.
His observation was that all the accounts were just as consistent
as a detective would expect when interviewing witnesses of a crime
scene.  He saw the right balance of consistency and inconsistency
to convince him that these stories were indeed genuine.

Dave (David E. Buxton)

davidbu@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM